Category: CEMurphy

Release Day: PEACOCK ON PARADE

February 24, 2025

My new shifter romance PEACOCK ON PARADE is available now! This is the second in an ongoing story of novellas set around the fictionalized Fota Wildlife Park in Cork, Ireland; in these books, it’s the Shamrock Safari Wildlife Park and many of its residents–either permanent or temporary–are shifters who can transform from human into an animal form and back again. They’re light, fun, and charming, and I got to borrow a friend’s name for the heroine of this one, which made it even more fun to write than usual. :D…

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Cover Reveal: DEMON HUNTS

January 30, 2025

Here is the new cover for DEMON HUNTS, Book Six of the Walker Papers! DEMON HUNTS will be re-released in April 2025! What consistently amazes me about the new covers for the Walker Papers is that I loved the original covers and it’s just impossible to imagine that the new ones can live up to the originals. But I really feel like they have, and I’m so happy with that. It’s really exciting for me to be able to get these books back out into the world with a really…

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20 years!

December 6, 2024

This week marks the 20th anniversary of me becoming a full-time writer! I’ve published 52 books in that time (with 2 more — PARTRIDGE IN A BEAR TREE and DEATH OF AN IRISH DRUID, do feel free to preorder :D — due out in the next 8 weeks), 13 novellas, a dozen or so short stories not associated with longer collections, and a graphic novel. That seems like quite a lot, tbh. And I’m sure I’m missing some short stories and things, but overall it’s probably close enough. I’m currently…

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developing a book proposal

October 7, 2024

Earlier this year, before acquiring an agent, I wrote a very short, like back-of-book-blurb, romantasy proposal that I sent to an editor I had access to. She asked for a full proposal (a full synopsis, 3 chapters), and that’s been on a back burner while I’ve been doing a thousand thousand other things. But yesterday I got to get started on it, and… I’ve talked often about how I tend to get to the 1/3rd mark in any book, no matter how long, and hit a wall that I have…

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september was so busy, omg.

October 2, 2024

I spent a lot of September going “Jesus I’m completely overwhelmed how am I going to get everything done I can’t this is horrible” kinds of day, and I just wanted to crawl in a hole and cry. Then I looked at my Thinks To Do list for the month, which…was completely insane. I did So Goddamn Much in September. This is not actually quite everything, I’d forgotten to put things on and I’d not expanded a couple of the dropdowns. No wonder I was freaking out. So that, folks,…

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